Ismael Zambada Garcia

Ismael Zambada Garcia (1 January 1948-) was the co-leader of the Sinaloa Cartel alongside Joaquin Guzman Loera.

Biography
Ismael Zambada Garcia was born in Culiacan, Sinaloa, Mexico on 1 January 1948, and he acquired extensive agricultural and botanical knowledge while working as a farmer. He began his criminal career by smuggling a few kilograms of drugs for some drug cartels, and he trafficked Colombian cocaine and also smuggled heroin and marijuana into the United States. In 1989, upon the arrest of Miguel Angel Felix Gallardo, the Mexican government negotiated the division of his Guadalajara Cartel's lands, and Zambada became the co-leader of the Sinaloa Cartel alongside Hector Luis Palma Salazar, Adrian Gomez Gonzalez, Ignacio Coronel Villarreal, and Joaquin Guzman Loera. In 2006, taking advantage of the start of the Mexican Drug War, the Sinaloa leaders began to encroach on the lands of the Tijuana Cartel. After Guzman's arrest in 2016, he became the sole leader of the Sinaloa Cartel, having previously overseen the logistics of the cartel. He exported cocaine and heroin into Chicago and other US cities by train, ship, jet, and submarine, and he became very wealthy.